Look Out Below! America's Infrastructure Is Crumbling. Higher Education Funding Cut by $89 Billion Over 10 Years in Obama Budget. President Barack Obama, who has called for the U.S. to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, proposed budget cuts that would reduce support for higher education by $89 billion over 10 years. Obama’s $77.4 billion spending proposal released today would cut a provision allowing some college students to get two Pell grants in a year and a program that lowers interest rates on loans for graduate students.
The changes will reduce 2012 higher education outlays by $10 billion while raising spending for kindergarten through high school education 6.9 percent to $26.8 billion, the Education Department said. Obama called last year for the U.S. to keep its economy competitive with other nations by producing an additional 8 million college graduates by 2020. “We’re making some tough choices to protect the Pell grant,” Justin Hamilton, a department spokesman, said in an e- mail today. “We’re cutting where we can so that we can invest where we must. Race to the Top $35 Billion in Costs. General Atomics MQ-1 Predator. The USAF describes the Predator as a "Tier II" MALE UAS (medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system). The UAS consists of four aircraft or "air vehicles" with sensors, a ground control station (GCS), and a primary satellite link communication suite.[4] Powered by a Rotax engine and driven by a propeller, the air vehicle can fly up to 400 nmi (460 mi; 740 km) to a target, loiter overhead for 14 hours, then return to its base.
Following 2001, the RQ-1 Predator became the primary unmanned aircraft used for offensive operations by the USAF and the CIA in Afghanistan and the Pakistani tribal areas; it has also been deployed elsewhere. Because offensive uses of the Predator are classified, U.S. military officials have reported an appreciation for the intelligence and reconnaissance-gathering abilities of UAVs but declined to publicly discuss their offensive use.[5] Development[edit] The Predator system was initially designated the RQ-1 Predator. Command and sensor systems[edit] Www.saffm.hq.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100128-072.pdf. Teal Group Predicts Worldwide UAV Market Will Total $89 Billion in Its 2012 UAV Market Profile and Forecast. Details Published on Friday, 08 June 2007 09:07 Written by Amy Campbell By Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires June 8, 2007 – Washington, D.C.
(Dow Jones) –A new Teal Group Corp. forecast of the commercial jetliner market calls for Boeing Co. Airbus is projected to win just 39% of the jet transport market, measured by dollar value, over the same period, said Teal Group aircraft analyst Richard Aboulafia. The new forecast predicts that Boeing's new 787 passenger jet will reach the market on time and perform as promised. Also, Airbus faces a major restructuring effort as it tries to recover from recent missteps. "Boeing's lead over Airbus is increasing," Aboulafia said in the forecast. In the 2007-2016 period, Teal Group projects production of 9,411 jetliners worth $692.5 billion. This 10-year outlook projects significant growth over the 1997-2006 period, when 7,282 aircraft worth $490.9 billion were delivered.
"We expect production to rise through 2010," the Teal Group report said. Drone Lobbying Ramps Up Among Industry Manufacturers, Developers. WASHINGTON -- It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but lobbyists for the industry that develops and manufactures the drones are already buzzing around Capitol Hill.
"This is one of the few areas where the government is still spending money and investing," said Alex Bronstein-Moffly, an analyst at First Street Research, which collects lobbying data. Lobbyists are pushing on legislation, regulations and appropriations, Bronstein-Moffly said. "This is the trifecta of lobbying. " Mention drones and most people conjure up missile-firing Predators hovering high above Yemen in search of al Qaeda terrorists. Yet even as the Obama administration defends its use of the drones, the future of unmanned aircraft lies in peaceful applications here at home. The Association For Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), an industry trade group, has said once drones are allowed to fly in U.S. airspace, "the civil market has the potential to eclipse the defense market.
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